its funny how they used to be one of the best crowds in battle rap and now they are by far the worst. the last event that was in canada was totally ruined by the crowd. it felt terrible on camera and for the battlers it was probably even more awkard

WD6 had the problem that so few people showed up that KOTD seemed to allow a bunch of people in who weren't really battle fans. To be honest, i think they're paying the price for how mismanaged their events have been for start times. They usually run late with huge lulls and people get bored.. It's clear to me a lot of fans are just staying home.

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Originally Posted by pityposter

Its called battle rap, not battle skin.

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Originally Posted by Water Mage

Hell yeah, about to smoke some weed from my special gandalf replica pipe and watch this

The need to stop with the 2 day events, condense the cards, start on time, have shorter breaks between battles, and have battles that are interesting enough to make people pay attention. If those things are implemented I believe Toronto "could" be a good crowd.

I bitch about the Toronto crowds a lot, but I also feel these events are not set up to have a great crowd. I mean, don't expect me to be silent when there is a 30 minute break between every battle and then have charron, tax, lexx, or some other lame on stage.

maintaining a canadian identity at the cost of the toronto crowd making footage unwatchable <<<<<<

the toronto crowd was actually pretty great for gully vs ganik. i'm still expecting them to be trash for this event because very few names announced so far hold any star power. booking so many up and comers for a major event with the worst crowd in battle rap is a huge risk. if the crowd is as bad as expected, i hope KOTD learns and starts booking events in cities that make much more sense.

The attention that the MASS cards get opposed to the BO or WD cards says quite a bit. Having a nightclub atmosphere at a battle rap event really doesn't help along with booking events to save costs of equipment doesn't help. At this point the events should be in the states, like @peace said, is the Canadian identity worth the shitty footage? Most of the talent is american anyways. Imo the reason they do events in Canada is cause they get funding from the government with some art tax thing, idk but thats my guess.

I stopped attending cause the crowds were terrible and they were pushing terrible battlers. Battle rap has passed its peak in Toronto. The good Canadian battlers don't even bother anymore, and the new fans are terrible.